Each of the past 11 years, NBA.com has conducted a GM survey, asking those in the know for their answers to a long list of league-related questions. This season, there are 57 such questions. Rather than force you to surf through all of it, here are the categories most applicable to the Heat, which recognizing that GMs are instructed not to vote for their own teams or players:

Erik Spoelstra knew the subject of the day, the suspensions of Udonis Haslem (one game) and Dexter Pittman (three games). So, in his pre-shootaround press conference — which itself is a departure from the way the team usually does business — Spoelstra issued a statement before taking questions.

“We’ll accept the decision,” Spoelstra said. “We don’t agree with it. We totally support UD as a player and as a family member. …

Pat Riley was in a good mood after Tuesday’s win, mocking myself and a radio host as we sat on the scorers’ table — “you guys don’t know anything” — and then busting in on another reporter’s video shoot.

That shouldn’t be a surprise. Not only had his team won convincingly, and taken some control of the series, but it had done so with some old-school physical play. (Even if Dexter Pittman should be …

Many around the nation are angry about the way that three superstars joined forces on the Heat.

One guy, with an office in New York, isn’t among them.

“To me, the idea that this is a terrible thing that players colluded to go someplace… they didn’t collude to do anything,” commissioner David Stern said, meeting with the media before Friday’s game. “They decided to use their free agency and end up here …